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Yes. For the moment I just want to see for how long the AWS Spain Region will stay up...

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Unless this extends to many days, the diesel generators will cover this easily.

most datacenters do not use diesel, but gas/methane/natural gas - utility connection, that way you do not need to truck/store anything.

and so being located in middle of city you do not want ten of thousands of liters of diesel in tanks there.

same applies for luxury high rises in europe, almost all if not all of 20+ story buildings built last 30 years have them on roofs.

> and so being located in middle of city you do not want ten of thousands of liters of diesel in tanks there.

Why? Every gas station stores that capacity.

This isn’t true in the US and would be a huge dependency risk. Natural gas networks require electricity to operate.

> and so being located in middle of city you do not want ten of thousands of liters of diesel in tanks there.

This is based on FUD. This is the case all over the US and they don’t cause problems.

It’s interesting that Europe has taken such a brittle approach to infrastructure.

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Unless this extends to many days, the diesel generators will cover this easily.

most datacenters do not use diesel, but gas/methane/natural gas - utility connection, that way you do not need to truck/store anything.

and so being located in middle of city you do not want ten of thousands of liters of diesel in tanks there.

same applies for luxury high rises in europe, almost all if not all of 20+ story buildings built last 30 years have them on roofs.

> and so being located in middle of city you do not want ten of thousands of liters of diesel in tanks there.

Why? Every gas station stores that capacity.

This isn’t true in the US and would be a huge dependency risk. Natural gas networks require electricity to operate.

> and so being located in middle of city you do not want ten of thousands of liters of diesel in tanks there.

This is based on FUD. This is the case all over the US and they don’t cause problems.

It’s interesting that Europe has taken such a brittle approach to infrastructure.

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